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Hardware headwinds hurt Cisco as revenue dips two per cent in Q1
Sales down, orders up, hopes pinned on intent-based networking (A.K.A. a dash of AI) Cisco suffered a decline in revenue for Q1 2018, weighed down by ongoing weakness in its switch and router business.…
Adobe dis-Connect: Corp collab service has been knackered for days
Meetings cancelled as conferencing tool goes dark following weekend maintence Customers of online web conference meeting service Adobe Connect have been unable or have struggled to access the collaboration tool for several days.…
The four problems with the US government's latest rulebook on security bug disclosures
But it's still better than nothing Analysis The United States government has published its new policy for publicly disclosing vulnerabilities and security holes.…
Crouching cyber Hidden Cobra: US warns Nork hackers are at it again with new software nasty
Fallchill file-stealing malware raids American networks The FBI and US Homeland Security have issued an alert about a new strain of malware infecting American corporate systems and stealing sensitive data.…
US govt's 'foreign' spy program that can snoop on Americans at home. Sure, let's reauth that...
What's Russian for "section 702 s***show"? Analysis The reauthorization of a controversial US government spying program has made further progress with the Senate's intelligence committee putting forward its recommendations to the whole Senate.…
US trade cops agree to investigate Apple's 'embrace and extend'
Remote desktop dev claims Cupertino froze them out A patent lawsuit alleging that Apple froze out a third-party software developer has been given credence by America's International Trade Commission (USITC), which will investigate the complaint.…
Confusion reigns over crypto vuln in Spanish electronic ID smartcards
Certs revoked, but where are the updates? The impact of a recently discovered cryptographic vulnerability involving smartcards is causing issues in Spain similar to those previously experienced in Estonia.…
Amazon, Google inject Bluetooth vuln vaccines into Echo, Home AI pals
The BlueBorne ultimatum Updated Amazon and Google have automatically patched people's Echo and Home AI assistant devices, respectively, to defend against recently discovered Bluetooth-related security vulnerabilities.…
Black Horse Down, we repeat... yes, Lloyds Bank, again
We're running out of backcronyms for TITSUP* Customers of Lloyds Banking Group banks and TSB have been shut out of their online banking this afternoon.…
Rocky Ross 128 b might harbour ALIENS – and it's headed right for us
In 71,000 years, it'll be closer than disappointing dustball Proxima Centauri b A new study to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics has detected what could be our closest exoplanet that is not only rocky, but also orbits a star with a low amount of solar activity that could help an atmosphere survive – Ross 128 b.…
Coming live to a warzone near you: Army Truck Driver for Xbox!
Shh, ignore senior Brit officers saying armed forces on brink of collapse As recently retired senior officers told UK Parliament that the armed forces are at risk of "institutional failure", the Ministry of Defence told the world's press that soldiers are playing with Xbox controllers.…
DXC Tech asks staff to profile their skills
Employees worried it's a loop-your-own-noose initiative DXC Technologies employees fear a company request to profile their skills on a new management portal will be used by top brass to elbow them out of the door in the next round of compulsory redundancies.…
Ads watchdog tells Plusnet: There's no way unlimited business broadband costs £4.50
If that were the case, you might actually Do Us Proud Two Plusnet adverts selling business broadband have been ruled "misleading" by the UK Advertising Standards Agency.…
Huawei's 4-socket HPC blade server gruntbox gets Skylake mills
Beefier grunts from Chipzilla's latest and greatest The HPC server gruntbox space is flourishing, with suppliers pumping out Broadwell-to-Skylake updates one after the other, Huawei being the latest.…
Pastry in a manger: We're soz, Greggs man said
We swapped out Lord Jesus for meat in sweet bread Budget pastry purveyor Greggs has been forced to apologise after substituting a sausage roll for Baby Jesus in its limited-edition advent calendar.…
The Quantum of Firefox: Why is this one unlike any other Firefox?
57: Mozilla's big bid for relevance Interview The Mozilla Foundation has officially launched a radical rewrite of its browser, a major cross-platform effort to regain relevance in a world that seems to have forgotten Firefox. The much-rewritten browser claims to be 30 per cent faster with half the memory load, although this comes at the cost of compatibility, as Scott Gilbertson found here.…
What is DJI Terra? Mystery builds over Chinese biz's trademark
Could be a ground drone ... or a music maestro Chinese drone firm DJI has trademarked the term "DJI Terra", spurring speculation that the unmanned aerial vehicle firm might be expanding into land-based products.…
TalkTalk sees red after chucking £75m on restructuring bonfire
Who wants to buy a phone biz? Beleaguered ISP TalkTalk's half-year results have plunged into the red, reporting pre-tax losses of £75m due to major restructuring costs.…
World Vasectomy Day: 15k men line up for live vent-blocking
24-hour extravaganza ... live ops streamed SFW The Reg readership might be interested to know that the coming Friday does not just signal the end of the working week and time to cut loose, it is also World Vasectomy Day.…
NetApp and Fujitsu NFLEX: More details emerge about European HCI tryst
Entanglement in the EMEA geo Analysis More details have emerged about the Fujitsu NetApp NFLEX converged system and about Fujitsu's HCI strategy, which might preclude it selling the NetApp HCI.…
Universal basic income is a great idea, which is also why it won't happen
Maybe Zuck and Musk do have it all figured out, but powers that be will need to see some proof The idea of a universal basic income (UBI) unites a strange mix of people. “We should explore ideas like universal basic income to give everyone a cushion to try new things,” Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg said in a speech at Harvard University in May. “And yes, giving everyone the freedom to pursue purpose isn’t free. People like me should pay for it,” he added.…
Splunk prototyping DevOps efficiency measurement tool
'Splunk App for Build Analytics' is in closed beta, but if you ask nicely ... Exclusive Splunk has developed a prototype product to measure productivity in DevOps teams.…
Now Oracle stiffs its own sales reps to pocket their overtime, allegedly
Managers told staff to report 40 hour weeks even if they worked more, lawsuit claims Oracle was sued on Tuesday by a former sales rep for allegedly failing to pay overtime wages, in violation of America's federal Fair Labor Standards Act and Texas state law.…
Google aims disrupto-tronic ray at intercoms. Yes, intercoms
Assistant and Home can now save you shouting at the kids when dinner's ready Vision of a connected speaker in every room to save shouting at the kids when dinner hits the table Google has taken on the might of the intercom industry with a device that makes shouting at your kids to get them to come to the dinner table redundant – for perhaps a couple of hundred dollars.…
Uncle Sam to strap body sensors to hackers in nuke lab security study
Secretive Sandia Labs, US military seeks a few good guinea pigs for hack contest The US Department of Defense is funding research into how hackers hack, with an interesting twist. It wants to wire them up with body monitoring equipment to measure how they react while hunting down and exploiting security flaws.…
TensorFlow lightens up to land on smartmobes, then embed everywhere
Thanks for coming, TensorFlow Mobile, TensorFlow Lite is what the cool kids will code with now Google's released an Android/iOS version of TensorFlow.…
Euro telco standards wonks publish third iteration of open source orchestrator
ETSI goes MANO et MANO et MANO for better NFV The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has published the third release of OSM, its open source management and orchestration (MANO) stack for network function virtualisation.…
576-megapixel 'Zwicky Transient Facility' telescope sees first light
Astroboffins prepare for cosmic data deluge starting in February 2018 A sky survey destined to add yet another firehose of data to astronomy saw first light in early November.…
US Homeland Security says hardly any Kaspersky software left on federal networks
They'd say more but Eugene K's loading the sueball-flinger Only 15 per cent of US federal agencies still have Kaspersky Lab software anywhere on their networks.…
How can airlines stop hackers pwning planes over the air? And don't say 'regular patches'
As Homeland Security hacks 757 on the tarmac At least some commercial aircraft are vulnerable to wireless hacking, a US Department of Homeland Security official has admitted.…
Remember CompuServe forums? They're still around! Also they're about to die
From the same people who turned Yahoo! into Oath, the end of an era CompuServe has announced it will remove its forums on December 15th, 2017.…
It's 2017 – and your Windows PC can be forced to run malware-stuffed Excel macros
Not enough? How about a few dozen PDF remote code holes? Microsoft and Adobe are getting into the holiday spirit this month by gorging users and admins with a glut of security fixes.…
What do Vegas hookers, Colombian government, and 30,000 other sites have in common? Crypto-jacking miners
Someone’s potentially getting rich – and it isn’t you Over the past few months there has been an alarming rise in the number of websites running code that silently joyrides computers and secretly makes them mine digital currency for miscreants.…
Twitter: Finally, there's an affordable way to pay us actual money
Premium Search API targets businesses on a budget Hoping to extinguish its eleven-year cash bonfire and finally turn a profit, Twitter has introduced premium APIs to allow businesses to make better use of its trove of troll tweets – for a fee.…
How about that US isle wrecked by a hurricane, no power, comms... yes, we mean Puerto Rico
FCC commish wants more than one-page updates on recovery Jessica Rosenworcel, one of the commissioners at America's broadband watchdog the FCC, has reiterated her call for hearings into what is happening with communications on the hurricane-stricken island of Puerto Rico.…
Heads up: OnePlus phones have a secret root backdoor and the password is 'angela'
Who left 'wipe the engineering toolkit' off the factory checklist? Updated An apparent factory cockup has left many OnePlus Android smartphones with an exposed diagnostics tool that can be potentially exploited to root the handsets.…
Uber sued over alleged rapes as #MeToo web rally reveals more sex assault claims
Ride-hailing biz blamed for indifferent security Two unnamed women allegedly raped by Uber drivers sued the transit app biz today for sexual assault and unlawful business practices.…
Donald Trump's tweets: Are they presidential statements or not?
Even the US Department of Justice can't decide They are the most dissected, repeated and analyzed statements in the world – but are Donald Trump's tweets formal statements by the President of the United States, or his own personal reflections?…
BT plots to slash pension benefits for 32,000 staff
Gotta plug that £14bn deficit somehow BT is proposing to close its defined benefit pension scheme for 11,000 managers and slash contributions to 21,000 frontline staff in a bid to plug a looming £14bn pension deficit.…
I'll admit, NetApp's NVMe fabric-accessed array sure has SAS, but it could be zippier
Jet plane, meet bike Analysis NetApp's E570 array supports NVMe over fabrics yet it does not use NVMe drives, potentially slowing data access.…
Privacy Pass protocol promises private perusing
Boffins write browser extension for anonymous authentication Boffins have harnessed privacy-preserving crypto to create a browser extension that allows users to authenticate to services without being tracked.…
Panzura offers DevOps swots that syncing feeling... with container docks
Offers free Docker integration File sync and sharer Panzura says containers are stuck executing locally unless the persistent storage they need moves with them to different on-premises or public cloud data centres. But, as luck would have it, it has got the tech to do just that.…
Windows on ARM: It's nearly here (again)
Benchmarks for HP laptop with Snapdragon CPU spotted It's a milestone in Windows history: the first benchmarks for a new generation of ARM-powered Windows hardware have been sighted in the wild. Geekbench has recorded an instance of a box running Windows 10 on the "Qualcomm CLS" platform.…
Infinidat adds sync, async replication and bans noisy neighbours
InfiniBox release 4 ticks more o' them mission-crit array boxes Big-iron array supplier Infinidat's fourth major version of its software adds sync (block) and async (file) replication, file directory quotas and quality of service features to quiet down noisy neighbours.…
Apple succeeds in failing wearables
Tick-tock, motherclockers An expensive and clunky-looking watch that can’t tell you the time* is once again clear winner in the failing smart wearables space.…
Estonia cuffs suspect, claims he's a Russian 'hacker spy'
20-year-old is not an agent, Russia retorts Russia has denied that a person nabbed by Estonian local authorities was one of its spies. Estonia alleges the suspect had been intent on hacking into the Baltic country’s computer network.…
Starting small with burst buffers? DDN says it's got an 'entry-level' one
Adds faster RAID rebuilds, cross-product checks, no pricing detail... DataDirect Networks (DDN) has added a smaller burst buffer product, decreased RAID rebuild times and introduced a cross-product monitoring and management facility to its HPS/supercomputing storage product set.…
Crap London broadband gets the sewer treatment
Oh rats! SSE inks deal to run fibre through Thames Water's subterranean empire London's Victorian sewer network is to be made accessible to fibre cables under a deal between SSE Enterprise Telecoms and Thames Water.…
DXC spills AWS private keys on public Github
'Unknown persons' spin up 244 VMs at cost of $64k. Whoops Miscreants racked up a $64,000 bill on DXC Technologies' tab after a techie accidentally uploaded the outsourcing firm's private AWS key to a public GitHub repo.…
HPE's Apollo 'Skylaked', will get ARM-wrestling little brother next year
More Apollo 2000 and 4510 power with wee Apollo 70 entering stage Some of HPE's supercomputer Apollo servers are Skylaked and can now say hello to an ARM-powered infant sibling.…
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